About

Alexa R. Kulinski is an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Herron School of Art and Design at IU Indianapolis. She holds a PhD in Teaching and Curriculum with a specialization in Art Education from Syracuse University, a master's degree in Art Education from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and a bachelor's degree in Art Education with a concentration in painting from Syracuse University.

Prior to joining Herron's faculty as an Assistant Professor, Alexa worked as a public school K-12 Visual Arts teacher for over a decade. Her research interests include visual journals, comics and graphic novels, arts-based research, narrative inquiry, teacher education, and contemporary artmaking practices.

Recent Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations and Sessions

• “Material portraiture: Researching through and with material,” Twentieth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, 2024.
• “Revision as provocation for arts-based exploration,” Twentieth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana, IL, 2024.
• “Leveraging contemporary artmaking practices in art teacher preparation and PK-12 art curriculum,” National Art Education Association Convention, Minneapolis, MN, 2024.
• with Rolling, J. H., Stabler, A. Bailey, I., Hsieh, K., Bae-Dimitriadis, M., Maloney Leaf, B., Traynham, M., Schull, N., & Kundu Little, R., “Stories from a special issue of Studies in Art Education on antiracist strategies and interventions,” National Art Education Association Convention, Minneapolis, MN, 2024.
• “Revision as provocation for arts-based exploration,” National Art Education Association Preconvention, Minneapolis, MN, 2024.
• “Material portraiture: Researching through and with material,” National Art Education Association Preconvention, Minneapolis, MN, 2024.
• with Willcox, L., Nemeth, J., Misch, A., Updike, A., Van Renterghem, O., Bravo, T, Evans, J., Hanfland, L., Luros, M., & Miller, G., “New artists & new voices: Herron preservice teachers sharing lessons inspired by contemporary artists,” Art Education Association of Indiana Convention, Mooresville, IN., 2023.
• with Prater, M., Richardson, H., & Willcox, L., “AI and the art teacher: Questions and applications for the use of AI,” Art Education Association of Indiana Convention, Mooresville, IN., 2023.
• “Stories we live by: Exploring graphic novels with high schoolers,” School of Education Graduate Student Research Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2023.
• “The matter of artmaking and teaching: Exploring preservice teachers’ perceptions and uses of matter in artmaking, reflection, and curriculum-making,” National Art Education Association Convention, San Antonio, TX, 2023.
• “Stories we live by: Exploring and making comics with high schoolers,” National Art Education Association Convention, San Antonio, TX, 2023.
• “Exploring the web of Whiteness in K-12 art education,” National Art Education Association 2023 Research Preconference, online, 2023.
• “Visual journals and your teaching practice,” New York State Art Teachers Association Conference, Binghamton, NY, 2022.
• with Rolling, J. H., DiOdoardo, E., & Caldwell, H., “Using narrative and storytelling for research and resilience during a difficult year in art teaching,” National Art Education Association Convention, New York, NY, 2022.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• The Shape of Memories—The Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT, 2019
• Seventh Annual Juried Mutlimedia Exhibit—Arts Center East, Vernon, CT, 2018
• MAAE Thesis Show—Riggs and Leidy Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD, 2017
• Artist-Teacher—Center for Art Education Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD, 2017
• Sixth Annual Juried Multimedia Exhibit—Arts Center East, Vernon, CT, 2017